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Main Street at Deming Luna Mimbres Museum

The store fronts along the Deming Luna Mimbres Museum Main Street exhibit represent early businesses in Deming.Each one is furnished and stocked with period items. Many have the original signs that hung on their hey-day.

As you enter the display area, you find Deming's first traffic light standing guard at one end of "Main Street". The businesses represented are:

   
  • Dentist's Office
  • A.W. Pollard, Lawyer Office
  • J.A. Mahoney, Home Furnishing & Hardware
  • Gem Grocery
  • Ruebush-Measday Livery Stable
  • Beauty Shop
  • Roseland Watch Repair
  • Deming Headlight Newspaper
  • Starr Barber Shop
  • Lindauer's Mercantile
  • U.S. Post Office
  • Ruebush Saddlery
  • Survey office
  • Baca's Mortuary
  • Mission Café

 

Parked along "Main Street" are antique vehicles including a Doctor's buggy and Deming's first car, a 1907 REO. At the end of the street, you will find an antique handoperated gas pump.

 

 

The stores are built to allow visitors to take a trip down memory lane or to learn about the past by just window shopping.

 

Click here for slide show view of "Main Street"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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